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Walter Savage Landor
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"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Religion
"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Religion
"In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Politics
"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Poetry
"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Men
"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Happiness
"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Happiness
"Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Age
"Music is God’s gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Art
"The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love."
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Walter Savage Landor
Topic(s):
Anger
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